About the Authors

Liuzhe Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Xiao-Hong Wang

Affiliation Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York, United States of America

Sagarika Banerjee

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Barbara Volsky

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Constance Williams

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Diana Virland

Affiliation Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York, United States of America

Arthur Nadas

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Michael S. Seaman

Affiliation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xuemin Chen

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Paul Spearman

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Susan Zolla-Pazner

Affiliations Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York, United States of America

Miroslaw K. Gorny

mirek.gorny@nyumc.org

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL MSS PS MKG. Performed the experiments: LL X-HW SB BV CW DV XC. Analyzed the data: LL AN MSS SZP MKG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AN PS SZP. Wrote the paper: MKG.